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Union was a plan to create a unified government for the Thirteen Colonies, suggested by Benjamin Franklin
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which prohibited American colonists from settling west of Appalachia.
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It began as a street brawl between American colonists and a lone British soldier, but quickly escalated to a chaotic, bloody slaughter
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He laws were meant to punish the Massachusetts colonists for their defiance in the Tea Party protest in reaction to changes in taxation by the British to the detriment of colonial goods.
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hundreds of British troops marched from Boston to nearby Concord in order to seize an arms cache.